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Don't Believe the Hype

A brilliant film that helped define a genre

At first rather annoying in its heavy emphasis on reenactments, this movie ultimately proves fascinating, simply because the complicated, highly dramatic tale it tells still almost defies belief.

This is one of the few movies I've ever seen where the whole audience broke into spontaneous, loud applause a third of the way in.

Before this movie came out, I had high expectations from Farah Khan and SRK combination because they delivered Main Hoon Na (an ode to the 70s in a cheesy manner but a well-made movie with a good message and emotions). I do accept that I had some really good laughs in this movie but if I were to isolate them from the story, the movie itself is riddled with so many factual inaccuracies and plot holes that it could easily go down as one of the worst SRK movies in his entire career. This kind of movie making huge dividends at the box office is a sure sign that Indian audience need to rise above their star fad and give way to intelligent movies. 2014 witness some good movies too but they were all drowned by the SRK stamp during the year. One of the reasons for my disappointment with this movie was that it was shot in Dubai (which is a nice thing) but it fed all the stereotypes that Indians have about Dubai. SRK is a highly revered Bollywood actor among the Emiratis and this was one of his chance to showcase the glamour and glitz of Bollywood by taking UAE as a base and showing correct things about the country (since he is one of the brand ambassadors for Dubai) but this was by far one of the disgrace he has shown to the country. Few examples of this such as saying that the law for theft in Dubai is chopping off hands (which is wrong) and, in the ending, the Dubai police would never take an accused to the police car in front of public. I could go on and on criticizing this movie not because it was a horrible movie but because such movies made money and audience do not even object such nonsense and it showed the city in a bad light. If we see any misrepresentation of India in any Hollywood movie, we make it a personal offense and start boycotting, doing Twitter trolls and make mountain out of molehill then why should we bad- mouth or downgrade another city / country. I also heard that the script of this movie was selected in the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Science. I am happy for that. This movie is a testament for the budding film-makers on how not to make such a trash movie like this.

So big deal, the movie had a lot of cliche's in it. No one cares about that in an Arnold Schwarzenegger movie. You sort of expect it. I enjoyed this movie because it was "entertaining" and took me away from all the depressing things I see on a regular basis in life. Just seeing Shah Rukh Khan dancing in a pink tutu and jumping into the arms of Sonu Sood was enough to make me laugh out loud. I mean, c'mon, how can you not laugh at scenes like that, which by the way had the piano tune, "The Entertainer" playing in the background, or Shah Rukh Khan dressed like Jackie Chan, sparring with a Korean dude, while "Everybody Was Kung Fu Fighting" is playing? Okay, it started out as a well planned heist for revenge, but turned out to be, for me and for "Charlie," a story that made me feel good about 6 people who were willing to put themselves out there and won the respect and applause from all those people that had originally booed them and treated them disrespectfully. It was one of those movies that made you happy to see the the underdog win! I'm not from India, I'm Italian, but during this movie, I found myself cheering on "Team India" primarily because they were so proud of their country and their heritage. Not only that, the music and dancing was great! It's one of the best soundtracks I've heard in a while, so I bought the soundtrack...and the movie."Happy New Year" was definitely a "feel good" movie. I don't think the movie was meant to be this epic drama. Leave that to "Devdas" and "Kal Ho Naa Ho." It was meant to be a fun, happy, musical movie that left you energized and proud of your country and it's people! We need more of that in our world!

A motion picture without serious dramatic content, a weighty message, or intellectual depth, which serves simply as enjoyable entertainment. This is according to Google the characterization of a popcorn movie. And this is exactly what Happy New Year is to us as a family. It is packed with lots of fun scenes and we keep going back to watch them. The songs are catchy and although not of Indian origin our kids started to sing along. The cast seemed to have a good time making the movie and has definitely found some new fans here in Switzerland. I would definitely recommend this movie to anyone who likes to enjoy himself and has a big bag of popcorn at home.

Only reason I decided to watch this, was because it looked like it was getting a lot of hype about it and it appeared in Netflix. Also, probably because this movie has SRK(king of Bollywood) and Deepika (super pretty). This movie is basically a stupid comedy. You know, those types of movies, where everything is just so stupid, you can not help but laugh. It did attempted to be a drama and a romance but, with the sudden switches between these themes, it was difficult to take it seriously. Most of the romance were silly clichés, as well.The silly theme of love at first stuff. Also, it keep showing the main guys' shirtless all the time.I know its probably to get female views because of them have six packs, but it was too much. And not in the way "omg its too much, i can not control myself". More like "are you kidding me, how does this make sense). Two good things about the film is Deepika's outfits (I want them) and the ending dance. That's why my rating is a 5.